Support for GIFs on the lockscreen. In Plasma 5.8, KDE implemented videos on the lockscreen. This, however, doesn’t include animated GIFs. When I loaded a GIF to be played on the lockscreen, it just displays the first frame and doesn’t loop. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to the Screen Locking menu in Desktop Behavior (inside System Settings). 2. Click on Wallpaper tab and select Images for "Wallpaper Type" 3. Select GIF Actual Results: Only frame 1 is displayed of the animated GIF. Expected Results: The lockscreen plays the animated GIF and loops. Just some small cosmetics adjustment, not too important.
Reassigning to plasmashell as the support needs to go into wallpaper plugin
>. In Plasma 5.8, KDE implemented videos on the lockscreen. No it didn't.
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #2) > >. In Plasma 5.8, KDE implemented videos on the lockscreen. > > No it didn't. You're right. I meant the new locker can play "animated wallpapers", but not GIFs. I wish I can correct the original post, but I can't.
I had a look, there's a different QML type for dispaying animated images: AnimatedImage. Following the tutorial here, https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?67703-Kubuntu-video-wallpaper it would be easy enough to add as a wallpaper type. However, this is the sort of feature that belongs in a different wallpaper plugin on store.kde.org, not in core Plasma.